Cast & Creative

Tom Gibbons

Sound Designer

Recent Theatre Includes: Best of Enemies (Young Vic), Hamlet, Oresteia (Park Avenue Armory, Almeida Theatre, West End), Animal Farm (UK tour), West Side Story, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Broadway), Cabaret (Goteborg Opera), Judas, Oedipus, The Doctor (International Theatre Amsterdam), The Antipodes, Home, I’m Darling, People, Places and Things (Winner for Best Sound Design, Olivier Awards 2016), Hedda Gabler, Sunset At The Villa Thalia, The Red Barn (National Theatre/West End), All About Eve (West End), Our Town (Regents Park Open Air Theatre), The Doctor, Wild Duck (Almeida and West End), Madness of King George III (Nottingham Playhouse), Hexenjagd (Theater Basel), Mr Burns, 1984 (Almeida, West End and Broadway), Fanny and Alexander, The Lorax (Old Vic), A View From the Bridge (Young Vic, West End and Broadway), Obsession (International Theatre Amsterdam and Barbican), Life of Galileo, Happy Days, A Season in the Congo, Disco Pigs (Young Vic), Les Miserables (Wermland Opera, Sweden), The Crucible (Theater Basel and Broadway), Anna Karenina (Manchester Royal Exchange), The Moderate Soprano, Elephants (Hampstead Theatre), White Devil, As You Like It (RSC), Translations, Plenty (Sheffield Crucible), After Life, The Absence of War, Romeo & Juliet (Headlong), Lion Boy (Complicite), Venus in Fur (Theatre Royal Haymarket), Henry IV, Julius Caesar (Donmar and St Ann’s Brooklyn), The End of History, Pah La, The Woods, Love Love Love, Goats (Royal Court).

Max Spielbichler

Video Design

Max is a Video Designer, Design Associate, Systems Designer and Technical Associate for live events. He trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama.

Video Design credits include: Afterlife (National Theatre).

Associate Video Design credits include: An American in Paris (Shiki Theatre Company, Kyoto), The Knife of Dawn (Royal Opera House).

As National Theatre’s Video Supervisor: Peter Gynt, My Brilliant Friend, The Welkin, Romeo and Juliet (Sky Arts)

As 59 Productions’ Technical Manager: The Last Ship (UK and Toronto), The Nutcracker (Royal Albert Hall), An American in Paris (West End), Apollo 50: Go for the Moon (Washington DC), Five Telegrams (Royal Albert Hall and Usher Hall), Array (Beech Street Tunnel),  Reflections, Guggenheim Bilbao 20th Anniversary in Bilbao, Spain, Boeing Centennial Projection Spectacular (Seattle, WA).

Shelley Maxwell

Movement Direction, Choreography, Intimacy

Theatre includes: The Time Traveller’s Wife: The Musical (Storyhouse), Get Up, Stand Up! The Bob Marley Story (West End), Best of Enemies (Young Vic), J’Ouvert (West End), Nine Night (West End), Equus (West End),  After Life, Master Harold…and the Boys, Hansard, Antony & Cleopatra, Twelfth Night (National Theatre), Tartuffe (RSC), Macbeth (The Globe), Faustus (Lyric & Birmingham Rep), Cinderella (Lyric), Grey (Oval House), King Hedley II and, Equus (Theatre Royal Stratford East), J’Ouvert (Theatre503), Cougar and, Dealing with Clair (Orange Tree Theatre), Winter and, Why it’s Kicking off Everywhere and, Cuttin’ it (Young Vic), A Streetcar named Desire (Nuffield, Clwyd Theatre Cymru and for English Touring Theatre), Rules for Living  (Royal & Derngate), Apologia  (English Theatre Frankfurt).

As assistant movement director, work includes Hamlet (RSC).

Television includes:  Anansi Boys (Amazon).

Film includes:  Romeo & Juliet (Sky Arts) Ear For Eye (BBC).

Shelley won the award for Best Choreographer at the inaugural Black British Theatre Awards in 2019 for her work on Equus.

Benjamin Kwasi Burrell

Composition

Charlotte Sutton CDG

UK Casting

Jim Carnahan CSA

US Casting

US CastingJim has cast over 150 Broadway shows. His upcoming New York work include: Almost Famous, A Beautiful Noise, Leopoldstadt, Take Me Out and Merrily We Roll Along. Past Broadway: Funny Girl, Take Me Out, Plaza Suite, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Caroline, or Change, Moulin Rouge! The Musical, The Lehman Trilogy, Soldier’s Play, Christmas Carol, Betrayal, Tootsie, All My Sons, Burn This, Kiss Me Kate, True West, The Ferryman, Head Over Heels, Travesties, Angels in America, Farinelli and the King, 1984, Groundhog Day, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, She Loves Me, Noises Off, King Charles III, Therese Raquin, Fun Home, Constellations, The River, The Real Thing, You Can’t Take It With You, Cabaret, Violet, Rocky, Machinal, Glass Menagerie, Matilda, Mystery of Edwin Drood, Harvey, Peter and the Starcatcher, Once, Mountaintop, Jerusalem, Anything Goes, Arcadia, Importance of Being Earnest, Scottsboro Boys, Sondheim on Sondheim, American Idiot, A Behanding in Spokane, Waiting for Godot, The Seagull, Boeing-Boeing, Sunday in the Park, Curtains, Spring Awakening, Pajama Game, Pillowman, Democracy, Twelve Angry Men, Assassins, Big River, Gypsy, Nine, Joe Egg, Into The Woods, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Noises Off, Follies, Man Who Came To Dinner, Copenhagen, True West, Side Man, View From the Bridge, 1776.

Off-Broadway: Little Shop of Horrors, Medea (BAM), Apologia, The Beast in the Jungle, If I Forget, Love Love Love, The Robber Bridegroom, Brooklynite, What’s It All About?, Talley’s Folly, If there is I Haven’t Found it Yet, Look Back in Anger.

London: Eureka Day (Old Vic), Mad House (Ambassador), The 47th (Old Vic), Betrayal (Harold Pinter), Glengarry Glen Ross (Playhouse), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Apollo), Angels in America (Lyttleton), Nice Fish (Harold Pinter), Glass Menagerie (Duke of York’s), Red Barn (Lyttleton), Motherf**ker with the Hat (Lyttleton), Streetcar Named Desire (Young Vic), Scottsboro Boys (Young Vic), Children’s Hour (Comedy), La Bête (Comedy), Deathtrap (Noel Coward), Speed the Plow (Old Vic).

San Francisco: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Curran), A Christmas Carol (Golden Gate), Swept Away (Berkeley Rep), The Jungle (Curran), American Idiot (Berkeley Rep).

Television/Film: Ari Aster’s Disappointment Blvd., John Mulaney & The Sack Lunch Bunch (Netflix), The Seagull, A Home At The End Of The World, Flicka, and Glee (Emmy nom). Brooklyn and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (New York Casting).

He is a member of the Casting Society of America and a twenty four-time recipient of the Artios Award for excellence in casting.

Annie Kershaw

Associate Director

Annie Kershaw is a theatre director from Reading. She worked as Jerwood Assistant Director on the Young Vic/Headlong co-production of Best of Enemies by James Graham directed by Jeremy Herrin (part of the Young Vic’s Jerwood Assistant Director Programme 2021, supported by Jerwood Arts).

Her theatre credits as a director include Hedda Gabler by Harriet Madeley and Safe by Alexis Gregory (Reading Rep Theatre), Gigi Star and Her Vocal Cords of Magic by Kit Sinclair (Applecart Arts, 2021), The System by Kit Sinclair (Bill Cashmore Award Finalist 2020 at Lyric, Hammersmith), This Is Not A Protest by Annie Kershaw (Reading Thames Festival), Clever Children by Fergus Church and Sick Dog by Kris Phillips (Rabble Theatre).

Her theatre credits as an assistant director include Jekyll & Hyde by Gary McNair and Dorian by Phoebe Eclair-Powell and Owen Horsley (Reading Rep), Henry II by Beth Flintoff (Rabble Theatre), Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (Rabble Theatre) and Alby the Penguin Saves Christmas by Helen Eastman (Reading Rep).

Annie studied Drama and Theatre Arts at the University of Birmingham.

Hazel Holder

Voice and Dialect Coach

Theatre includes: To Kill a Mockingbird, 2.22, The Glass Menagerie, Cock, Constellations, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, Get Up Stand Up, Death of a Salesman, Uncle Vanya, Caroline, or Change, Dreamgirls (West End); Blues for an Alabama Sky, Small Island, Trouble in Mind, Rockets & Blue Lights, Death of England: Delroy, Death of England, Nine Night, Angels in America, Barber Shop Chronicles, Les Blancs, Ma Rainey (National Theatre); Jitney (Old Vic); The Doll’s House Part 2, Marys Seacole (Donmar); Pass Over (Kiln); Fairview, The Convert (Young Vic); ear for eye, Poet in Da Corner (Royal Court).

Television includes: The Anansi Boys; The Baby; Small Axe; The Power; In the Long Run.

Film includes: Drift; Aisha (Letitia Wright); The Silent Twins; Ear for Eye; Death on the Nile (Letitia Wright)

Sian Harris

Costume Supervisor

Sian Harris trained in fashion at the London College of Fashion, but has worked as a costume supervisor for many years. Recent work includes: All’s Well that Ends Well, Venice Preserved, Tartuffe, MacBeth, Coriolanus, Titus Andronicus, Anthony and Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, The Alchemist, Don Quixote, Hecuba, Oppenheimer, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Arden of Faversham, Troilus and Cressida, Richard III, The Merchant of Venice (2011 and 2015), Dunsinane (RSC), Home, Fracked, Way Upstream, Frankie and Johnny, King Lear, Neville’s Island, If Only, Canvas, The Syndicate, Bingo, Wallenstein (Chichester Festival Theatre), The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, Swallows and Amazons, Goodnight Mr Tom (2010, 2012 and 2016) (Children’s Touring Partnership), The Girl on the Train (Duke of York’s Theatre), Don Quixote (Garrick Theatre), King Lear (Old Vic), Neville’s Island (Duke of York Theatre), Speed the Plow (Playhouse Theatre), Other Desert Cities (Old Vic Theatre), The Ladykillers (Vaudeville Theatre), Botticelli in the Fire, Rapture Blister Burn, Longing, Last of the Duchess, Peggy For You (Hampstead Theatre), Swive, Measure for Measure, Julius Caesar (Shakespeare’s Globe)

Lily Mollgaard

Props Supervisor

In the last twenty years Lily has worked on over 270 shows in the West End, on Broadway & beyond. Lily spent 10 years running the props department at Shakespeare Globe and 15 years as Prop Supervisor for Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures which included The Car Man, Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty and The Red Shoes.

Theatre includes: My Neighbour Totoro (RSC Barbican), The Car Man (Royal Albert Hall), Southbury Child, John Gabriel Borkman, Straight Line Crazy, Guys and Dolls (Bridge Theatre), Sleeping Beauty (Matthew Bourne UK Tour), Peaky Blinders (Rambert UK Tour), Tammy Faye (Almeida Theatre), The Lion King (Lyceum Theatre) Jesus Christ Superstar (UK tour and Broadway) Sunset Boulevard, Bombay Dreams (Apollo Victoria Theatre and Broadway), Joseph, Made in Dagenham (Adelphi Theatre) The Producers, Oliver!, Shrek, (Theatre Royal Drury Lane) Miss Saigon (Prince Edward Theatre) Spamalot (Playhouse Theatre) Sister Act (London Palladium) Hairspray (Shaftsbury Theatre), School of Rock (Gillian Lynne Theatre) Wild Duck (Almeida Theatre), Julius Caesar, Night Fall (Bridge Theatre) Company (Gielgud Theatre) and The Pinter Season (One, Two, Five and Six) at The Harold Pinter Theatre (The Jamie Lloyd Theatre Company) Red Shoes (Matthew Bourne)
Evita (Regent’s Park) Blithe Spirit (Theatre Royal Bath) Midsummer Nights Dream (Bridge Theatre), Cyrano de Bergerac (Jamie Lloyd) Leopoldstadt (Sonia Friedman Productions) Prince of Egypt (Dominion Theatre) 9 to 5 (Savoy Theatre) A Number, Beat The Devil, Talking Heads, JS Bach & Sons, Book of Dust (Bridge Theatre) Nutcracker, Midnight Bell (Matthew Bourne) and The Good Life.

Helen Keane

For Campbell Young Associates | Wigs, Hair & Make Up Supervisor

Campbell Young Associates theatre credits include: Theatre includes: Eureka Day, Into The Woods, Back To The Future, Cinderella, Anything Goes, Get Up Stand Up, All About Eve, Funny Girl, The Light In The Piazza, Rosmersholm, Company, The King & I, St. Joan, City of Angels, One Night in Miami, The Young Chekhov Trilogy, Gypsy, The Bodyguard, (West End). Present Laughter, The Master Builder, High Society, Electra, Sweet Bird of Youth, Richard III, Kiss Me Kate, Inherit the Wind, A Christmas Carol, (Old Vic). Leopoldstadt, To Kill A Mockingbird, Company, TINA – The Tina Turner Musical, The Ferryman, The Girl from the North Country, Farinelli and the King, Groundhog Day, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda, Ghost-The Musical, Billy Elliot (West End/Broadway). A Beautiful Noise, Almost Famous, The Devil Wears Prada (Chicago), Funny Girl, The Music Man, Head Over Heels, Carousel, Three Tall Women, Hello Dolly!, The Crucible, Betrayal, Les Miserables, (Broadway).

Opera includes: Don Carlos, L’enfant et les sortileges (Bolshoi Opera Moscow); Anna Nicole (BAM)

Film includes: Downton Abbey

Television includes: The Gilded Age

Awards: Drama Desk Award 2020 – Outstanding Wig and Hair Design for TINA – The Tina Turner Musical

Ben Glover

Associate Video Designer